Biblical Scenes and Characters

Engravings depicting biblical narratives, featuring Adam and Eve, and scenes from Christ's miracles, rich in detail and expression.

Coypel, Charles-Antoine, Amsterdam, Picart, Bernard, Don Quixote and the Knight of Mirrors, verso lower right - stamped, Don Quixote has defeated Sanson Carasco, the Knight of Mirrors. He orders him to throw himself at the feet of Dulciena. In the margin a two-line caption in French., print, engraving, book illustration, prints, engravings, height 227 mm, width 164 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, printmaker, 1732 - 1733, second quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, engraving (printing process), French, 1694-07-11 - 1752-04-16

The Good Samaritan Tending the Traveller's Wounds with Oil and Wine or The Priest and the Levite Passing, from The Parable of the Good Samaritan. Artist: Heinrich Aldegrever (German, Paderborn ca. 1502-1555/1561 Soest). Dimensions: Sheet: 3 1/8 × 4 5/16 in. (7.9 × 10.9 cm). Date: 1554.At left, the Good Samaritan leans to tend to the traveller. In the background at center, a Levite with a book walking right towards a priest. Plate 2 from a series of four engravings depicting Luke 10:30-35. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Brigands: Design for an Engraving. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, first half of the 18th century. Dimensions: 11 1/4 x 8 3/4in. (28.6 x 22.2cm). Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Europe. Women's figure with cornucopia in a landscape.

Hieronymus, holy.

Shepherd and shepherdess for a storm, Moyses van Wtenbrouck, 1645 - 1660 print The shepherd and shepherd's hide under a shelter in each other's arms for a severe storm. A flute and sheet music on the ground. A herd of cows, falling over each other, panic. print maker: The Haguepublisher: Antwerp (possibly) paper etching / engraving thunderstorm. pastorals, Arcadian scenes

Artist: Simone Cantarini, Italian, 1612-1648, Rest on the Flight intoEgypt, Etching, sheet: 17.1 × 26.1 cm (6 3/4 × 10 1/4in.), Italian, 17thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Diogenes in search of an honest man ca. 1645-47 Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) Italian. Diogenes in search of an honest man 363471

Tobias is shocked by the fish; The story of Tobias. Tobias sits along the side of the water and reinstall if he sees the fish in the water. The angel is behind him. Numbered as II in the lower right corner.

Pen drawing by Josef Winterhalder the Elder showing a figure playing putting, rendered in dark brown ink, including figure posture and environment details.

De Engel comfort Hagar, Moyses van Wtenbrouck, 1620 print Hagar is sitting in a hilly landscape at the foot of a thick tree. The angel walks towards her. The Hague paper etching an angel meets Hagar at the fountain on the way to Shur and persuades her to return

Man climbs a rock with blindfolded Cupido, Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg, after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1609 print A man climbs a rock, pulling up by the blindfolded Cupido. There are different valuables behind Cupido. Under the performance is a two -tone, Latin text and a two -way, Dutch poem in which the performance and its meaning are explained. Leiden paper engraving climbing. adult man. rocks. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. amorousness, desire. display of jewels, etc.

Amor at a bear who licks her young, Jan van Vianen, 1686 print Amor kneels down at a bear that licks her young. Just as the bear licks her young while it grows up, loved ones will arrive at each other by making love to each other. Sixth emblem from Emblemata amatoria. Northern Netherlands paper etching (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros). beasts of prey, predatory animals: bear (+ animals used symbolically)

The Festival of Pan Fête de Pan. 1648. Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto, 1609-1664. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

. In a paradise landscape, naked people enjoy the fruit that the generous nature gives them. They dance and sit too minist. A boy in the foreground blows soap bubbles from a pipe. On the left in the foreground two putti hold a cartouche with a Latin text. In the air, God watches Saturn over this golden age. The print refers to the mythologically inspired idea that man initially lived in an age of continuous spring. War or injustice were absent. During the Golden Age everyone lived in bliss, in a world where people could enjoy the fruitful nature without working.

Camillo Procaccini, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c 1595 1600 The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

The Flight into Egypt: Small Plate n.d. Claude Henri Watelet French. The Flight into Egypt: Small Plate 391543

Creation of EVA; History of Adam and Eva. God kneeling in paradise and with crown on the head, pulls Eve up the side of the sleeping Adam. First print from a series of six with the story of Adam and Eva.

Johannes de Baptist as a young man at a source, Raphaël Sadeler (I), After Esea Salmeggia, 1598 - 1604 print John the Baptist as a young man. He catches water from a source with a bowl. There is a lamb next to him. Italy paper engraving / etching John the Baptist in the wilderness, usually accompanied by a lamb. spring, source of river or stream

Rest on the flight into Egypt, Mary holding the infant Christ with St. Joseph at right, copy after Cantarini ca. 1640 or after After Simone Cantarini Italian. Rest on the flight into Egypt, Mary holding the infant Christ with St. Joseph at right, copy after Cantarini 397350

. In a landscape, the Centaur Chiron shows the little Asclepius to his daughter Ocyhoë. She predicts the fate of Chiron and Asclepius.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt. Dated: c. 1590. Dimensions: sheet (cut to platemark): 17.5 x 25.9 cm (6 7/8 x 10 3/16 in.). Medium: etching on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: CAMILLO PROCACCINI.

Sense face, Nicolaes de Bruyn, After Maerten de Vos, 1581 - 1656 print Woman as a personification of sense face sitting in landscape, she looks in a mirror while a bird of prey with spread wings is standing next to her. A scene from Genesis is shown in the background, God shows Adam and Eva the tree of knowledge of good and evil. In margin under two lines Latin. paper engraving sight, looking (one of the five senses). the giving of the test commandment: God warns Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil

Eeckhout, Jacob Joseph, Van den Burggraaff, Guillaume Philidor, Poultry seller, print, prints, Belgian, 1790, print maker, printmaker, 1800 - 1900, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), Work conception, 1793-02-08 - 1861-12-25

Antwerp, Jode, Pieter de (I), Italy, Tempesta, Antonio, Metamorphoses of Ovid, Metamorphoseon sive transformationum, Aetas aurea, The Golden Age, verso - stamped, Naked people live happily together with animals in a landscape in the Golden Age. Title in Latin in bottom margin., print, prints, height 105 mm, width 118 mm, Italian, 1555 - 1630-08-05, print maker, printmaker, 1606 - 1606, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, Southern Netherlands, 1570 - 1634-08-09, publisher

The finding of Romulus and Remus Romulus and Remus found by Faustus Pietro, da Cortona, 1596-1669. still image. Art reproductions. 1901 - 1906. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Legends, Romulus, King of Rome

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Albrecht Dürer The Ill Assorted Couple (NGA 194333454) Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471 - 1528 ), The Ill-Assorted Couple, 1495/1496, engraving, Rosenwald Collection

Erato, the Muse of lyricism and love poetry, sits with a lyre on her lap and is lauded by two putti Beside her, an angel blows the trumpet In the background, putti pull laurel branches from a tree to fill Erato's wreath with, Erato being lauded Title page for: W den Elger, Poems and Rotterdamsche arcadia, 1726, print maker: Jacob Folkema, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jan Wandelaar, (mentioned on object), publisher: Willem Barents, (mentioned on object), 1726, paper, etching, h 170 mm × w 135 mm

Narcissus, Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), after Benedetto Luti, 1666-1724, Italian, 1763, Engraving

The River God and the Boys. Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607-1677 London). Date: 1625-77. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Diana, Carel Allard, Michel Dorigny, after Simon Vouet, in or after 1638 print print maker: Amsterdamafter print by: France paper engraving / etching (story of) Diana (Artemis). dog

Calasiris and Cariclee meet an Egyptian woman, Anonymous, Michel Lasne (Possible), 1623 print Two figures in the background. In the foreground the Egyptian woman with sword and shield. There are injured and dead figures in front of her. Paris paper engraving / letterpress printing the corpse. death of human being

The penance of St John Chrysostom., Lucas Cranach the Elder, artist, 1509, Germany, engraving, A prolific German Renaissance painter, and engraver, Lucas Cranach (1472-1553) may have invented the full-length portrait. Cranach served as painter to the court of Frederick the Wise of Saxony in Wittenberg, where he specialised in portraits with bold compositions and strong colours. He was also responsible for decorative schemes around the court, as well as for tournaments and celebrations, the considerable demands of this work led him to open a workshop and to develop techniques and standardisation that sped up the painting process. A close friend of Martin Luther, Cranach also supervised the printing of Luthers pamphlets, painted altarpieces for Lutheran churches and produced portraits of Protestant reformers and princes, as well as designing woodcuts for Luthers translation of the New Testament.

Sleeping Shepherdesses, Anonymous, After Adriaen van der Kabel, 1710 - 1746 print Three scantily dressed women at the foot of a column after which a standing man, a cow and some goats. paper etching sleeping; unconsciousness. herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.

Shepherd and shepherdess, Moyses van Wtenbrouck, 1600 - 1647

Lucas Cranach D.Ae. (-1553), the Holy John Chrysostoms Bodsoevelse, 1509

. Allegory in which a small Keeshond (patriots) and orange customers are weighed on a scales on a tree. De Keeshond does the scales spoke despite all the frantic attempts from the orange customers to get the weight on their side. On the side of the Keeshond are the freedom, caution, love and religion at a monument with a portrait of the Amsterdam mayor Hendrik Hooft Danielsz., 1787. At the print is a small text sheet.

Theonas, pl. 7 of 29 from the series Solitudo sive vitae patrum eremicolarum (MaleHermits). Engraver: Unknown After: Maarten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603 Publisher: Johann Sadeler I, Flemish, 1550-1600 Publisher: Rafael Sadeler I, Flemish, 1560-1628

Northern Netherlands, Vinckboons, David (I), Annunciation to the shepherds, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 157 mm, width 117 mm, 1576-08-13 - 1629, print maker, printmaker, 1604 - 1604, paper, papier, etching, etchings, drypoint, dry needle, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Couple at a classic monument and a city gate; Annette And Lubin. Pastoral scene with a crying shepherdess being comforted by a young man. In the background riders at a city gate.

Couple by a classic monument and a city gate, Hendrik Hoogers, 1787 print Pastoral scene with a crying shepherdin that is comforted by a young man. In the background horsemen at a city gate. Nijmegen paper etching pastorals, Arcadian scenes. herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.. crying, shouting (+ being sad, suffering, sorrowing)

. Andromeda is chained to a rock, as a sacrifice to a sea monster, which is right in the water. In addition, Perseus is ready to kill the monster. The parents of Andromeda and bystanders are grieving and pointing.

Allegorical title page with different scenes from the metamorphoses of Ovidius and his portrait, Bernard Picart, 1731 print Allegorical performance with different scenes and metamorphoses from the book of Ovidius. Among other things, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus in the foreground, Narcissus who falls in love with his own mirror image and Leda seduced by Jupiter in the form of a swan. In the middle Vertumnus as an old woman and pomona, Apollo and Daphne, Pan and Syrinx. In the background Pluto and Proserpina, Perseus and the Monster, the fall of Icarus. In the sky on a cloud of Venus in her car, pulled through a swan. At the top in a medallion under a garland the portrait of the writer Publius Ovidius Naso. Under the show an empty cartouche. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving title-page. metamorphoses ~ classical mythology. story of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis. Hermaphroditus and Salmacis changed into a hermaphrodite: at the prayer of the fountain-nymph Salmacis, who holds the bathing H

Pan and Syrinx, Anthonie Waterloo, 1773 - 1832 print Syrinx flees into the reeds in a wooded landscape, while Pan is haunting her. Paris paper etching Syrinx changed into a reed: while fleeing from Pan, the nymph Syrinx is changed into reed by her sisters, the Naiads (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 705). forest, wood

Lazio Viterbo Caprarola Palazzo Farnese91. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Venus fills the arrow case of Amor, Gerard de Lairesse, 1675 - 1680 print Venus fills the arrow sleeve of Amor with new arrows, in the background are forging at work. The print is part of a four -part series of prints with scenes from the mythological story of Venus. Left in the margin numbered: 3. paper etching Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute)

Telemachus having a conversation with the celebrated Mentor in front of a tent. In the background are soldiers at a city gate. Print marked top left: Page 174. Telemachus in conversation with Mentor Mentor arrive a l'Arm, print maker: Simon Fokke, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1775, paper, etching, h 146 mm × w 92 mm

Herder and Herderin, Moyses van Wtenbrouck, 1645 - 1660 print A shepherd, seen on the back, sits by a shepherdin, who looks at a sheet of paper on her lap. The shepherd's staff is on the floor, their herd is behind them. print maker: The Haguepublisher: Antwerp (possibly) paper engraving / drypoint Pastoral, Arcadian Scenes

The Flight with the Holy Family at the Right. Dated: published 1753. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.

Allegorical Composition with a Young Man Kneeling before a Tree. Artist: Giovanni Angelo Canini (Italian, Rome 1615-1666 Rome). Dimensions: 9-7/16 x 6-5/8 in. (24.0 x 16.9 cm). Date: 1615-66. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Paris and Oenone. Paris and Oenone in a landscape. Under the show two lines in Latin.

Allegory over time. Allegory on time: putti at a colossal antique image that lies in pieces for them. In the background three times the figure of father's time flying with a zeis on the shoulder.

Along a road, three beggars sit with their donkey near a stone block. One of them sits on the stone. A merchant carrying a basket of bottles in front of his belly comes by to sell his gin., The gin seller and the three beggars, print maker: Jan van Ossenbeeck, (mentioned on object), Netherlands, 1647 - 1674, paper, etching, h 105 mm × w 100 mm

Amor sows children in the earth, Jan van Vianen, 1686 print Amor has put his Toorst aside under a tree and sows love in the soil, where children's heads grow. Love maintains the earth and builds it. First emblem from Emblemata amatoria. Northern Netherlands paper etching (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros). sowing (+ variant)

In Lausanne at Mourer Brandoin, Longueil, Joseph (1730 1792)

Earth 1646-47 Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian. Earth 361619

Three women and a dragon, Jacob Folkema, After Louis Fabritius Dubourg, 1703 - 1767 print In a forest, two women look shocked at a third woman sitting next to a dragon. paper etching / brush dragon

Schaapherders, Cornelis Bloemaert (II) (possibly), after Abraham Bloemaert, in or after 1638 - in or after 1652 print Three shepherds rest for eating. A woman sits on a stone, with a spoon in her hand and a bowl in her lap. There is a bread and a jug on the floor. A young man looks at the sheep, the third shepherd leans on a stone. Print three from a series of four prints with pastoral scenes. print maker: Utrecht (possibly)publisher: Amsterdam paper engraving pastorals, Arcadian scenes. herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.

Three girls play the Bikkelspel, Jan Luyken, 1712 on the sidewalk print Amsterdam paper etching / letterpress printing children's games and plays

Bacchanal with Sleeping Bacchus. Dated: 1650s. Dimensions: plate: 26.2 x 20.2 cm (10 5/16 x 7 15/16 in.) sheet: 38.5 x 26.8 cm (15 3/16 x 10 9/16 in.). Medium: etching with engraving on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Michel Dorigny.

Satyr Pursuing a Nymph. Carl Wilhelm Kolbe I (Germany, Berlin, 1759-1835). Germany, 1796. Prints; etchings. Etching

A Roman beekeeper tends his bees. Date: First published: 29 BC

Saint Jerome kneeling on a rock in front of a cross and an open book facing left, after Reni. Artist: After Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575-1642 Bologna); Anonymous, 17th century. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 8 1/4 × 5 1/4 in. (20.9 × 13.3 cm). Date: ca. 1600-1640.Copy distinguished by the omission of a second cloud at top center between the branches of two trees. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Venus and Adonis, Anonymous, After Gerard de Lairesse, After Pieter van den Berge, 1651 - 1761 print Adonis wants to hunt, but Venus is afraid that something would happen to her loved one and tries to stop him. paper etching Venus and Adonis as lovers. Adonis hunting

Sadeler, Raphael (I), Johann (I), Vos, Maerten de, Antwerp, Solitudo Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum, Male Hermits, Theonas as a Hermit, verso lower left - stamped, St. Theonas as a Hermit in a Cave in the Wilderness. He sits at a worktable and reads a Bible. A landscape with beggars in the background., print, prints, height 175 mm, width 201 mm, Southern Netherlands, 1550 - 1600-08, print maker, printmaker, 1583 - 1588, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1560, 1532 - 1603-12-04, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Engraver: Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558-1617, After: Palma Giovane (Jacopo Negretti), Italian, ca. 1548-1628, St. Jerome in theDesert, Engraving, 16 × 11 in. (40.6 × 27.9cm), Made in The Netherlands, Dutch, 16thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Plate 36 of 38 from Oeuvres de J. B. Huet. Jean Baptiste Huet; French, 1745-1811. Date: 1796-1799. Dimensions: 480 × 350 mm. Etching on paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: JEAN BAPTISTE HUET.

Honesty, Raffaello Schiaminossi, c. 1605 print Personification of honesty (Sinceritas) with a heart in hand. Italy paper etching heart - AA - female human figure. city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions

Young Clifford Finding the Body of his Father. Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris). Dimensions: Image: 8 3/4 x 6 3/16 in. (22.3 x 15.7 cm)Sheet: 10 5/16 x 8 1/16 in. (26.2 x 20.4 cm). Series/Portfolio: Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II. Date: 1834. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Flight intoEgypt. Artist: Cornelis Danckerts, Dutch, 1604-1656

Adam and Eva in Paradise / Abel beaten by Cain, Jan Luyken, 1698 print Two performances of a plate. Numbered at the top right: 8 and 10. Amsterdam paper etching Adam and Eve in paradise (before the Fall). the killing of Abel: Cain slays him with a stone, a club or a jaw-bone, alternatively with a spade or another tool as weapon

The Monkey Opens the Package and Removes the Rabbit's Head to the Great Surprise of the Animals from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox. Artist: Allart van Everdingen (Dutch, Alkmaar 1621-1675 Amsterdam). Dimensions: Plate: 3 5/8 × 4 1/2 in. (9.2 × 11.5 cm)Sheet: 3 7/8 × 4 13/16 in. (9.8 × 12.2 cm). Date: 1650-75. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Herders, anonymous, after Cornelis Bloemaert (II), after Abraham Bloemaert, 1625 - 1718 print A man, wife and boy rests in a rural environment, accompanied by sheep. A jug and some foods are on the floor. The woman eats from a bowl. Amsterdam paper engraving pastorals, Arcadian scenes. herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.

The Buffoon, Arabesque. Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695-1772). Engraving;

The Genius of Salvator Rosa. Artist: Salvator Rosa (Italian, Arenella (Naples) 1615-1673 Rome). Dimensions: Sheet: 17 15/16 x 10 7/8 in. (45.6 x 27.6 cm). Date: ca. 1662. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Personification of the arts at its writing table. The personification of the arts is at a writing table and is crowned by a trumpet blowing putto with the eternity symbol, a snake that bites its own tail. A rooster walks at her foot. For the writing table there is a woman with spear and two wings on her head. On a banderole above the performance the text: L. SMITTHII MESSIS AUREA, ETAGHIA.

The Flight into Egypt 18th century Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre French. The Flight into Egypt 339337

Holy Family with St. Elizabeth & St. John the Baptist. Artist: Jan Muller (Netherlandish, Amsterdam 1571-1628 Amsterdam); After Dirck Barendsz. (Netherlandish, Amsterdam 1534-1592 Amsterdam). Dimensions: 36.8 x 29.2 cm. Publisher: Harmen Jansz. Muller (Netherlandish, Amsterdam ca. 1540-1617 Amsterdam). Date: 1588. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Jacob, from the series Sylvae Sacrae Monumenta...Anachoretarum 1593-94 Johann Sadeler I Netherlandish. Jacob, from the series Sylvae Sacrae Monumenta...Anachoretarum 386170

Antwerp, Galle, Philips, Bruegel, Pieter (I), Resurrection, verso - stamped, The risen Christ floats above the open grave with a banner in his hand. The soldiers are sitting in the foreground sleeping. Some of them are looking into the grave. On the right, the women arrive, seeing the angel sitting on the gravestone., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 461 mm, width 333 mm, Zuid-Nederlands, 1537 - 1612-03-29, print maker, printmaker, 1560 - 1565, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1525 - 1569-09-05, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher

The Village in Flames (L'Incendie du Hameau), 1893-1894. Alphonse Legros (French, 1837-1911). Etching; sheet: 46.5 x 61.7 cm (18 5/16 x 24 5/16 in.); image: 39 x 56.5 cm (15 3/8 x 22 1/4 in.).

Philis kisses the sleeping shepherd Dametas A dog looks on, in the background the flock of sheep, Philis kisses the sleeping Dametas Dametas and Philis , print maker: Noach van der Meer (II), (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jacobus Buys, (mentioned on object), publisher: Johannes Allart, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1777, paper, etching, h 245 mm × w 155 mm

Venus fills the quiver of Cupid, Gerard de Lairesse, 1675 - 1680

Sacrifice of Isaac. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: after David Teniers the Younger Andreas Altomonte.

Amsterdam, Muller, Harmen Jansz, Barendsz., Dirck, Jan Harmensz., Holy Family with Elizabeth and John the Baptist, verso - stamped, The Holy Family seated under a tree in a landscape. John the Baptist holds Christ's hand. Elizabeth kneels near the group. At the bottom in the margin a two-line text in Latin., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 368 mm, width 294 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1571 - 1628, print maker, printmaker, 1586 - 1590, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1534 - 1592-05-26, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, Netherlands, 1540 - 1617-10-07, publisher

Lente, Jan Van Ossenbee, After Nikolaas Van Han Hiy, After Francesco Ii bassano, In or Aft 1660 print A group of farmers at work outside their house. A woman milks the goats. A man wears a tub with milk. On the right a boy with his dogs, he wears a dead hare on his shoulder. Presentation of spring in a series with prints of the four seasons. Brussels paper etching / engraving spring landscape; landscape symbolizing spring (the four seasons of the year)

Diana and Actaeon, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1602 - 1607 print The young Prince Actaeon on hunting in the forest, where he encountered Diana and her nymphs who were bathed. Diana changed the prince because he had seen her naked, for punishment in a deer. In the margin a four -line caption, in two columns, in Latin. Cologne paper engraving Actaeon changed into a stag: as punishment for seeing her bathe, Diana changes Actaeon, the hunter, into a stag (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 193)

Spring, Herman BRECKERVELD, After Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, 1626 print An elegant dressed pair stands with a horse that is held by a clerk. On the right a beggar who asks them for an alms, on the left a young man and a dog. Rear a carriage that drives along a canal and walkers. Presentation of spring from a series of four prints with the four seasons. The Hague paper etching / engraving clothes, costume (+ men's clothes). clothes, costume (+ women's clothes). cape (+ men's clothes). spring ~ human activities (the four seasons of the year)

Aeneas breaks the golden branch, Cornelis Bloemaert (II), After Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, 1633 - 1692 print Aeneas and his friend Achates are in the forest of Proserpina. Aeneas breaks a branch of a tree. A pigeon keeps a twig of that branch in her beak. He needs the branch to be able to hide his way to the underworld behind that branch. paper engraving Aeneas plucks the 'Golden Bough' by the aid of two doves

Slapende Venus, Willem de Broen (possibly), after Nicolas Poussin, c. 1705 - in or before 1748 print Venus is sleeping on the banks of a lake. Putti fly through the air and play with their arrow and arches. Two fauns moan them so that Venus does not wake up. A love couple, shepherd and shepherdin, has also discovered the sleeping Venus. paper etching sleeping; unconsciousness. Venus asleep

The Flight of the Centaur Nessus with Dejanina Artist's working dates 1671-1730 France. Black chalk, with black crayon, over traces of red chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, on brown laid paper, perimeter mounted on cream laid paper . François Verdier

Thomas mother looking for him in Naples, Cornelis Boel, Otto van Veen, 1610.

Hieronymus reading in the wilderness.

Pierre-Alexandre Aveline after François Boucher, French (probably 1702-1760), La Fontaine de l'Amour, 1738, engraving with etching on laid paper

Meeting between four historical figures, Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784 print Meeting in the open air between Jan Pietersz. Coen, Jacob Mossel, Pieter van den Broecke and Cornelis de Houtman. In the background a group of mutinous figures for a hut that makes of smoke. Under the image a text with the date January 1766. Amsterdam paper etching fighting civilians, e.g.: 'franc tireur'. light, fire, smoke, etc. used for signalling

Chalk drawing by Gaetano Benvenuti depicting St. Francis kneeling on a stone before a cross, executed in blue chalk.

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In a garden, Paul and Virginia look at the sun from behind a bush. Illustration for the story 'Paul et Virginie,' about the love between a white girl and a white boy growing up together in a French colony in the early 18th century, Paul and Virginia looking at the sun, print maker: Reinier Vinkeles (I), (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1751 - 1816, paper, etching, engraving, h 190 mm × w 124 mm

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata. Artist: After Camillo Procaccini (Italian, Bologna 1555-1629 Milan). Dimensions: Sheet: 19 9/16 × 13 1/8 in. (49.7 × 33.3 cm). Publisher: Justus Sadeler (Netherlandish, Antwerp ca. 1572/83-ca. 1620 Leiden). Date: 1590-1620. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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